Nicky Akehurst
@nickyakehurst.bsky.social
Known for Management & Representation of Photographers & Archives. Now permanently in the garden, creating my personal Eden, whilst dedicating time to Conservation/Environmental/Social Issues.
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Come on, @scotgov, this is something we should be doing.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Come on, @scotgov, this is something we should be doing.
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China’s emissions have peaked, five years ahead of schedule. A moment of epochal importance.
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NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
China’s emissions have peaked, five years ahead of schedule. A moment of epochal importance.
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The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…
This does not bode at all well for creative copyright.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim
Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners
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November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This does not bode at all well for creative copyright.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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💥Former deputy head of Hungary’s foreign intelligence, Andras Telkes, says that Viktor Orbán’s government cooperated politically with Russia’s SVR when Orbán adopted the Russian spy agency’s narrative claiming the EU was backing Hungary’s opposition leader. More on this: telex.hu/english/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
💥Former deputy head of Hungary’s foreign intelligence, Andras Telkes, says that Viktor Orbán’s government cooperated politically with Russia’s SVR when Orbán adopted the Russian spy agency’s narrative claiming the EU was backing Hungary’s opposition leader. More on this: telex.hu/english/2025...
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Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
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92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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Pie on Brexit.
From Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio.
From Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio.
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Pie on Brexit.
From Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio.
From Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio.
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Scotland’s third Land Reform Bill has been criticised as inadequate by land reform campaigners, but here’s one good bit: it will require owners of landholdings over 1,000 hectares to set out how they are boosting biodiversity
Let’s do the same in England:
treesforlife.org.uk/new-law-says...
Let’s do the same in England:
treesforlife.org.uk/new-law-says...
New law says large landowners need to set out biodiversity plans, in ‘big step towards a Rewilding Nation’ - Trees for Life
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October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Scotland’s third Land Reform Bill has been criticised as inadequate by land reform campaigners, but here’s one good bit: it will require owners of landholdings over 1,000 hectares to set out how they are boosting biodiversity
Let’s do the same in England:
treesforlife.org.uk/new-law-says...
Let’s do the same in England:
treesforlife.org.uk/new-law-says...
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Acute and chronic viral infections, including Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Hepatitis C, HIV, CMV, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, are linked with a substantial increased risk of cardiovascular events, from a systematic review. Figure for SARS-CoV-2 below
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October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Acute and chronic viral infections, including Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Hepatitis C, HIV, CMV, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, are linked with a substantial increased risk of cardiovascular events, from a systematic review. Figure for SARS-CoV-2 below
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'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets'
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Communities must have the right to own environmental assets | Community Land Trust Network
We have written on behalf of 100s of community land trusts to urge the government to add 'environmental interests' to the definition of Assets of ...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets'
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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🥕🍓🥦🍇 If Europe is serious about tackling cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses such as Parkinson’s, it must look at what’s on our plates. What we eat, and how our food is grown, plays a key role in our wellbeing 🍅🫑🥥🍏
www.pan-europe.info/blog/promote...
www.pan-europe.info/blog/promote...
Promote pesticide-free food to face heart disease, cancer and Parkinson's
If Europe is serious about tackling cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses such as Parkinson’s, it must look at what’s on our plates. What we eat — and how our food is grown — plays a key ...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🥕🍓🥦🍇 If Europe is serious about tackling cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses such as Parkinson’s, it must look at what’s on our plates. What we eat, and how our food is grown, plays a key role in our wellbeing 🍅🫑🥥🍏
www.pan-europe.info/blog/promote...
www.pan-europe.info/blog/promote...
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The UK is among the most nature depleted counties in the world. A horrendous fact. Can you help reverse this by donating some cash to help the Wildlife Trusts buy the enormous Rothbury Estate so they can bring back wildlife? www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The UK is among the most nature depleted counties in the world. A horrendous fact. Can you help reverse this by donating some cash to help the Wildlife Trusts buy the enormous Rothbury Estate so they can bring back wildlife? www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot
It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Ministry of Defence could have launched as many as 739 surveillance sorties relating to Gaza since December 2023, new research by Declassified shows.
👉Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends
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👉Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends
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Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends
Aircraft contracted to look for hostages continues to fly from UK base despite ceasefire, with drones also spotted.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Ministry of Defence could have launched as many as 739 surveillance sorties relating to Gaza since December 2023, new research by Declassified shows.
👉Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends
www.declassifieduk.org/spy-plane-re...
👉Spy plane remains active in Cyprus after Gaza mission ends
www.declassifieduk.org/spy-plane-re...
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Let's talk about the Epstein files.
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Let's talk about the Epstein files.
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The brutality. The corruption. The lies.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The brutality. The corruption. The lies.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson.
Watch.
Will humans ever learn?
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Brazil approves oil drilling near mouth of Amazon River – DW – 10/21/2025
The government has granted the state-run Petrobras a license to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon. Environmentalists have slammed the decision, with Brazil hosting an upcoming UN climate summ...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Will humans ever learn?
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www.dw.com/en/brazil-ap...
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October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: Half of the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited, including some of our most iconic fish, like North Sea cod - our new research shows
The government has the power to stop this. Tell them to: END OVERFISHING! https://act.oceana.org/page/178303/data/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
The government has the power to stop this. Tell them to: END OVERFISHING! https://act.oceana.org/page/178303/data/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
October 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Half of the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited, including some of our most iconic fish, like North Sea cod - our new research shows
The government has the power to stop this. Tell them to: END OVERFISHING! https://act.oceana.org/page/178303/data/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
The government has the power to stop this. Tell them to: END OVERFISHING! https://act.oceana.org/page/178303/data/1?ea.tracking.id=bluesky
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This an awesome music video by scaredketchup. He has produce some of the greatest videos monking the Regime. Please support his work!
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NO KINGS 2.0 - The Music Video
YouTube video by scaredketchup
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October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This an awesome music video by scaredketchup. He has produce some of the greatest videos monking the Regime. Please support his work!
youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...
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15,000 scientists warn of socio-economic collapse. Yet nearly half of Brits think climate change won’t affect them.
This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? #TimeToStepUp #NEB
This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? #TimeToStepUp #NEB
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
October 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
15,000 scientists warn of socio-economic collapse. Yet nearly half of Brits think climate change won’t affect them.
This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? #TimeToStepUp #NEB
This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? #TimeToStepUp #NEB
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Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
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PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
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On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
October 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.
Pic: one of our Scottish sites.
e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...